Border Watch

Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control

Alexandra Hall author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pluto Press

Published:6th Jul '12

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Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. Should only economically useful immigrants be allowed? What should be done with unwanted or 'illegal' immigrants?

In this bold intervention, Alexandra Hall shows that immigration detention centres offer a window onto society's broader attitudes towards immigrants. Despite periodic media scandals, remarkably little has been written about the everyday workings of this system, or about the people responsible for setting immigration policy. Detention, particularly, is a hidden side of border politics, despite its growing international importance as a tool of control and security.

This book also looks at the social life and the relationships between officers and immigrants to explore broad social trends, as well as resistance within the system, and provides rare insights into the treatment of the 'other'.

'Challenges the way we understand detention' -- William Walters, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa Canada, and author of Governmentality: Critical Encounters (2012).
'A rich, thoughtful, fair, and ultimately strong examination of immigration detention centres and guards' -- Josiah McC. Heyman, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department, University of Texas at El Paso.
'Hugely impressive' -- LSE Review of Books

ISBN: 9780745327242

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 361g

216 pages